Bai Juyi's song "Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog." Midnight comes, and dawn goes. When there are not many dreams in spring, it seems that there is nowhere to find the clouds. "Small and exquisite, the sentence pattern is staggered, the rhythm is neat, the artistic conception is confused, obscure and hazy, and there are similarities with Li Shangyin's untitled poems, but Bai Juyi's poem is not a flower without roots, a rootless wood, which can be seen from his various life experiences, but there are traces to follow in seemingly nothing to rely on."
First, the colt in the sigh, the fire in the stone, the body in the dream
Judging from the provenance of the text, "Hua Non-Flower" appears in the "sentimental" section of the "Bai's Changqing Collection", mainly writing poems of sorrow and joy, such as the feeling of missing, because the scenery touches the scenery to express their feelings. Next to the "flower is not a flower" are "True Niang's Tomb" and "Jian Jian Yin", these two capitals are mourning poems, one is "frost destroys peach and plum wind and lotus, true niang died when the teenager is young", the other is "February frost killed peach and plum, next year want to marry and die this year", are sorry for the two thin red faces. These three poems belong to the same part and have similar tendencies, and it can be inferred that "flowers are not flowers" and the first two capitals express a kind of sadness and nostalgia for beautiful things that are easy to pass away and difficult to stay.
The beauty that was once there was fleeting and could not stay around for a long time, but for Bai Juyi, who was serious about love, it was always in his heart, and the beauty would not fade with the passage of time, but would be timeless. During the fu separation period, the young Bai Juyi fell in love with the neighbor girl Xiang Ling, who was four years younger than himself, and wrote "Hire Ting Fifteen Victorious Immortals, Day Chang'e Dryland Lotus" to praise the beloved woman, and after the separation, he used "Send Xiang Ling" "After knowing the farewell to the west floor, you should worry alone by the railing", and later because her mother saw the portal and wanted to marry Xiang Ling, a pair of Bi people in Qingmei Bamboo Horse finally ended up in the river Han. For example, forty years after Lu You and Tang Wanshen's farewell, Lu You recalled that Tang Wanlai was also affectionate and secretly hurt, with the words Mingzhi "The spring wave green under the sad bridge was once a shocking shadow", the same is a person of heavy affection, Bai Juyi's future life must also be obsessed with Xiang Ling.
There is a god hurt of the first love, there are often accompanied by people around the departure, in Bai Juyi's seventy years old, accompanied him for a long time Fan Su and Xiao Man or left, rumored as a beautiful talk of "cherry Fan Su mouth, willow small barbarian waist" to "guest scattered feast empty cover alone" ended. This is the "flower blossom and thank you flower non-flower" of the woman in "Flower Non Flower", and there is a recollection of the beautiful woman's distant figure.
The bumpy experience after middle age also adds a new footnote to the confusion of "flowers not flowers". In the year of Bai Juyi's confusion, his mother died, and soon his beloved daughter Jin Luanzi also died of illness, and the officialdom was also discouraged, and the prime minister Wu Yuanheng was assassinated on the way to the court, and because of his upright advice, he was demoted to Sima of Jiangzhou, and wrote the "Pipa Xing" to express his sorrow. Although this series of events did not completely depressed him, it was not a small blow to him, which directly or indirectly prompted his thinking to change.
2. A piano, a pot of wine, a stream of clouds
Unable to ask for it and unable to keep it, Bai Juyi built a grass hall on the edge of Donglin Temple under the peak of the incense burner in Lushan Mountain during his tenure in Jiangzhou, practiced Buddhism, and began a life of "official". Gradually moving closer to the Buddhist family, this prepares for the Zen infusion of "flowers not flowers". There is a well-known saying in the Heart Sutra that "color is emptiness, and emptiness is color", which means that the material world is something that real people can see, but it is formed by the harmony of causes and conditions and will not exist forever. Looking at this poem "Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog", we may wish to understand that "flower" and "fog" are just a name, a name with abstract concepts and referential meanings, "Spring Dream" and "Morning Clouds" are beautiful and perishable things, just like the sunset that blooms at dusk and withers away the next day. And this beautiful thing is also "midnight, the day goes", coming and going in a hurry, moving and stopping, which is also its charm - leaving an endless aftertaste.
After the construction of the Caotang, Bai Juyi was easy to relax, and the number of sentimental poems also increased, which also meant that he changed from the stage of Daze and helping the world to the poor and being alone, which is not to say that Bai Juyi gave up the world and helped the world, but when he did not have the ability to take care of everyone, his thoughts turned inward - paying more attention to his own feelings, and began to be content, together, idle, and liberated. Relatives and friends have passed away, they have gradually grown old, the original passionate ideal of life, the heart of the hot child, are gradually consumed by the years, it is no longer the same as the original, Bai Juyi returned to the Buddhist path to calm the heart, with a faint Sanskrit tone poured into the "flower not flower".
The most is to retain in the human world, Zhu Yan ci mirror flower ci tree. "Flowers are not flowers" may have nostalgia for beauty, feelings about life, and perhaps there is a trace of regret, a little unwillingness, it is the nostalgia and regret of those beautiful things in life that have come and gone, it is "and now I know all the sorrows and tastes, I want to say that I will rest, but I say that the day is cold and autumn".